{"id":31822,"date":"2017-01-15T03:52:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T03:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-three-dead-30-injured-in-mbarara-car-crush\/"},"modified":"2017-01-15T03:51:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T03:51:42","slug":"uganda-three-dead-30-injured-in-mbarara-car-crush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-three-dead-30-injured-in-mbarara-car-crush\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda:Three dead, 30 injured in Mbarara car crush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{According to police, the accident happened at about 3am on Sunday.}<\/p>\n<p>Three people have been confirmed dead and 30 others seriously injured following a motor accident at Katebe along Mbarara- Ibanda highway.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the accident happened at about 3am on Sunday when the driver of a speeding Canter, carrying about 60 passengers lost control and overturned several times.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were travelling from an annual Christian crusade of a prominent preacher Fr John Bashobora in Karaama in Mbarara District to Buhweju District.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the deceased as Kiviri Leonida, 43, Beatrice Nahabwe, 28 and Innocent Asiimwe, 3.<\/p>\n<p>The injured were rushed to Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital where they are receiving treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Police attributed the cause of the accident to reckless driving, saying the driver was trying to dodge traffic officers because it\u2019s illegal to carry passengers on the back of the truck.<\/p>\n<p>Buhweju County MP, Mr Francis Mwijukye told this reporter that all the victims are his constituents and are in bad shape.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17616 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/latest001_pix-8.jpg\" alt=\"The wreckage of the car which crashed, killing three people and injuring 30 others parked at Mbarara Regional Police station. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{According to police, the accident happened at about 3am on Sunday.} Three people have been confirmed dead and 30 others seriously injured following a motor accident at Katebe along Mbarara- Ibanda highway. According to police, the accident happened at about 3am on Sunday when the driver of a speeding Canter, carrying about 60 passengers lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2481],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-monitor"],"bylines":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31822"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31822"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}